Sun  announced the immediate availability of the OpenJDK Community Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) License. With this release, Sun is placing the means for certifying “Write Once, Run Anywhere” compatibility into the hands of the community.

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Sun Microsystems kicked off its JavaOne conference in San Francisco last week by introducing a new suite of Java products – JavaFX.

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All that Java news from Java One:

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Motorola executives yesterday portrayed a world where whole populations are bypassing the PC and fixed-line networks to experience the internet using broadband and mobile.

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Community Participation Drives Evolution of Java Micro Edition Platform

It’s a tough job. Convincing Java developers that any hardware vendor - let alone Intel in the wake of roadmap set backs - has any immediate relevance.It’s an even harder task sidestepping Intel’s thorny heritage with Sun Microsystems over its 64-bit Itanium chipset.

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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has been put on the back foot over its Project Harmony initiative, following Sun Microsystems’ decision to open-source most of its Java 2 Standard Edition (SE) Java Development Kit (JDK).

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Bob Brewin, software CTO at Sun Microsystems Inc., said the company will discuss the state of its open-source plans for Java and present the first CommunityOne day for open source and Web developers at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco next week. In an interview with Computerworld on Tuesday, Brewin said that the company is on track to make all Java products available under the same General Public License (GPL) that Linux carries. He added that the company continues to mull over whether to make the Solaris operating system available under GPL.  Solaris is now available under the Sun-created Community Development and Distribution License.

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